note 87232 added to reserved.variables.server

If using command line php (CLI) for server side scripting, you cannot use the SERVER_ADDR variable to obtain the IP of your machine. What I did was parse the ifconfig command. Which means you have to have exec allowed on the server (not the case with shared hosts typically). So assuming you can use exec, here is the script. $a = shell_exec('ifconfig'); $blah = before(" Bcast",$a); $gah = after("inet addr:",$blah); $ip = trim($gah); echo "serverip: $ip \n"; function before ($this, $inthat) { return substr($inthat, 0, strpos($inthat, $this)); } function after ($this, $inthat) { if (!is_bool(strpos($inthat, $this))) return substr($inthat,strpos($inthat,$this) +strlen($this)); } There are better ways I'm sure, but this hack got me past this hurdle. If someone has a more elegant way, hopefully they will post. ---- Server IP: 66.207.199.35 Probable Submitter: 64.253.136.161 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/87232 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87232/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87232/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87232/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87232/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87232/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87232/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87232 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/87232 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php